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can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
-- Ralph Nader *
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights,
consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global
trade and investment.
-- Ralph
Nader | ”Man's
capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice
makes democracy necessary.”
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
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I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get
good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and
civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
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Barack Obama |
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"This leads to a question
-- if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right?
If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure,
is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right,
and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also
to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular
time may mean only disaster."
-- Frances
Perkins |
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"A community is democratic
only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic,
and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess."
-- A.
Philip Randolph | "'If
democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people give up these
rights when they enter their workplace? In politics we fight like tigers for freedom,
for the right to elect our leaders, for freedom of movement, choice of residence,
choice of what work to pursue - control of our lives, in short. And then we wake
up in the morning and go to work, and all those rights disappear. We no longer
insist on them. And so for most of the day we return to feudalism. That is what
capitalism is - a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business
leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains. And so we still hand over our
lives' labor, under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work.... 'So. We must
challenge. It is time. If self-rule is a fundamental value, if simple justice
is a value, then they are values everywhere, including in the workplace where
we spend so much of our lives'...."
-- Kim Stanley Robinson
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“The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief
that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve
the community in which we live..."
-- Eleanor
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"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private
power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.
That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by
a group, or by any other controlling private power. Among us today a concentration
of private power without equal in history is growing."
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt |  |
The only sure bulwark
of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of
the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its
sovereign control over the government.
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
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“A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy”
-- Theodore Roosevelt |
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